O Lost: A Story of the Buried LifeUniv of South Carolina Press, 2000 - 694 páginas "The editing of Thomas Wolfe's first novel, originally titled "O Lost," has been the subject of literary argument since its 1929 publication in abridged form as Look Homeward, Angel. This powerful coming-of-age novel tells the rich story of Eugene Gant, a young North Carolina man who longs to escape the confines of his small-town life and his tumultuous family. At the insistence of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor at Charles Scribner's Sons, Wolfe cut the typescript by 22 percent. Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript." "For seventy years Wolfe scholars have speculated about the merits of the unpublished complete work and about the editorial process - particularly the reputed collaboration of Perkins and Wolfe. In order to present this classic novel in its original form as Wolfe wrote it, Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli have established the text from the carbon copy of the typescript and from Wolfe's pencil manuscript. In addition to restoring passages omitted from Look Homeward, Angel, the editors have corrected errors introduced by the typist and other mistakes in the original text and have explicated problematic readings. An introduction and appendices - including textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes - reconstruct Wolfe's process of creation and place it in the context of the publishing process." --Book Jacket. |
Índice
Acknowledgments | ix |
Introduction | xi |
Manuscript and Typescript | xxi |
Editorial Policy | xxxix |
A Story of the Buried Life | 1 |
Part I | 3 |
Part II | 177 |
Part III | 423 |
Chapter Breaks | 663 |
Substantive Emendations | 672 |
Términos y frases comunes
Altamont arms asked beauty began Ben's bitter Colby cried curse damn dark death Dixieland door earth Eugene Eugene's eyes face feet felt fingers Fred Gant Gant's Gene George Graves girl Glynn gone grey grinning hair hand head heard heart hell hill Horse Hines Hugh Barton hunger Jeff Streeter John Dorsey Julia knew laughed laughter lean legs Leonard light lips lived Look Homeward looked lost Mabel Mama Max Isaacs morning mouth muttered Negro never nigger night Oliver Pentland porch quietly rich roared scowling silence Sinker Jordan slowly smell smile South Carolina Spottle stared stood strange street talk There's thin thing Thomas Wolfe thought Tom Davis Tom French Tom Grant town turned typescript verso voice walked weary What's whispered Wolfe Wolfe's woman young